Greetings Baffers! Been making mixtapes for years and years on cassette but now plan to adjust to the time being and record my mixes so that I can play them on the computer and whatnot. Not too technically gifted so wonder what equiment I need in order to maintain a decent soundquality. I've got two decks, one decent mixer and a decent PC. So... what to do next?Thanx / Matti

Like Natty Matti, this baffles me a bit too. I have used a CD recording machine with my hifi to record tunes to listen to in the car/upload to my ipod. This also gives me a digital backup of the tune. I am aware of Audacity and know people use is it in a similar way, but don't know what is meant by the digital/audio converter - is this something else that needs bought/downloaded or what?

A ad/da converter is a hardware device which needs to be purchased. The most simple ones do have 2 channel stereo. There are many different brands with many different features and qualities/prices out there, the one I recommended above is this one: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MTrack.htmlAs I said, just one example. There are too many. I am not an expert either, just had the same problem as Natty Matti once. I went with this combination Audacity /M-Track and I am fully satisfied with it. I believe this topic is dealt with already on the board (or I read about it elsewhere).

I use a Tascam DR-05 digital recorder which I plug in to one of the output of my mixer. Very easy to use,cheap(120€),good quality device and besides it works quite well to record live shows or soundsystem sessions.